September 30 - December 4, 2011

Luis Camnitzer

Formally allied with the American Conceptualists and Minimalists of the 1960s and 1970s, over the past 50 years Luis Camnitzer has developed an essentially autonomous oeuvre, recognizable by its acutely observed detail, its acerbic wit, as well as by its socio-political commitment. Luis Camnitzer is organized by Daros Latinamerica, Zürich, and curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen.

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September 26 - December 31, 2011

Luis Camnitzer: Arbitrary Objects and Their Titles

Walter C. Koerner Library, 1958 Main Mall

In this installation on the main floor of Koerner Library, artist Luis Camnitzer explores the organization of knowledge and how people imagine and make connections between ideas. “Titles” written on torn pieces of paper have been randomly paired with objects found on the university campus.

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September 2 - 18, 2011

Happy
Joe Bérubé, Marilyne Blais, Jordy Hamilton, Chunping Huang, Nick Lakowski, Joomi Seo, Damla Tamer

UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition 2011

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Happy, an exhibition of work by the 2011 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program.

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June 24 - August 21, 2011

Material Witness
Mario García Torres / Konrad Wendt

Curated by Lee Plested

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Material Witness: Mario García Torres / Konrad Wendt is an exhibition of recent work by Mexican artist Mario García Torres that investigates historic pieces of Conceptual Art presented alongside a survey of works by Konrad Wendt, a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

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January 14 - June 5, 2011

Faces: Works From The Permanent Collection

Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver
Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
February 4 - April 10, 2011

Faces is an exhibition of work from the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. The exhibition is presented in three locations in Vancouver: at the Belkin Art Gallery, Walter C. Koerner Library (UBC), and the Satellite Gallery (560 Seymour Street). This exhibition will explore the diverse ways faces are represented, looking specifically at how notions of gender, race and class affect our understanding of them—aiming to reveal, in the process, that this uniquely human trait is anything but neutral.

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October 8 - December 5, 2010

Mark Boulos

Mark Boulos’ video installations have been capturing the imagination of the international, contemporary art scene since the Biennale of Sydney in 2008. Boulos was trained as a documentary filmmaker and is now working on gallery installations. This is the first solo exhibition of his work in North America and features the new, three-channel, video work, No Permanent Address (2010).

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January 14 - September 18, 2011

Faces: Works from the Permanent Collection

Walter C. Koerner Library, 1958 Main Mall

This collection presented at Walter C. Koerner Library represents some of the men and women who have been part of the history of The University of British Columbia between 1913 and 1966. Since the early 1980s, whether for fear of defacement or other concerns, these portraits left the departments from which they originated to be stored at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. This exhibition is an opportunity to recognize UBC’s history and to find homes for these pictures on campus.

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September 3 - 19, 2010

Here today, gone today
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Keesic Douglas, Sydney Hermant, Fan-Ling Suen,
Zoe Tissandier, and Clare Yow

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the 2010 graduates of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program.

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June 18 - August 22, 2010

Jamelie Hassan
At the Far Edge of Words

Since the 1960s, Jamelie Hassan’s work has been influenced by cultural politics and personal history. This is the first survey exhibition of her work and includes over two dozen paintings, drawings, photographs, multi-media installations, as well as the billboard—Because . . . there was and there wasn’t a city of Baghdad.

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June 18, 2010 - TBD

Jamelie Hassan
Seek Knowledge Even Onto China

Installed at Walter C. Koerner Library at the University of British Columbia.

When Hassan was growing up in southwestern Ontario, her father often repeated a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: Seek knowledge even unto China. It promoted the importance of study, travel, and first hand experience in understanding the world. This saying is the basis for her text-based work…

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April 1 - June 2, 2010

Douglas Coupland
Fight Club and Less Than Zero

In conjunction with the Media Transatlantic Conference at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (April 8 – 10, 2010), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Walter C. Koerner Library are pleased to exhibit work by Vancouver author and artist, Douglas Coupland.

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April 16 - June 2, 2010

Breathless Days 1959 - 1960:
A Chronotropic Experiment

This exhibition of painting, photography, collage, and prints includes work from the public collections of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the private collections of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, and of Geoffrey Farmer. The works draw a constellation of ideas and aesthetic propositions from Vancouver, Cape Dorset, and the San Francisco art scenes circa 1959-1960, including Canadian abstract expressionism, early Inuit Art, and the Beat movement.

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17 January - 28 March, 2010

Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in

Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ḳi-ḳe-in brings together for the first time, contemporary ceremonial curtains by Nuuchaanulth artist Ḳi-ḳe-in (Ron Hamilton) and historical curtains from museum and private collections in Canada and the United States.

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9 October - 6 December, 2009

Judy Radul: World Rehearsal Court

World Rehearsal Court, a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist Judy Radul is a large-scale media installation. This work draws on Radul’s research into the role of theatricality and new technologies in the court of law and it questions the distinctions between experience, testimony, reproduction, truth, and fiction that the law attempts to make distinct. World Rehearsal Court addresses the complexities of real-life experience that the court compresses into written record.

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4 September - 20 September, 2009

Interrobang
UBC MASTER OF FINE ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION

Shea Allan-McCachen, Scott Billings, Krista Dragomer, Julio López, Jen Weih

An exhibition of work by the 2009 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Interrobang. A nonstandard English-language punctuation mark, the interrobang combines the function of a question mark and an exclamation point. A connection and bonding between different characters, interrobang, the exhibition, presents divergent work by five emerging artists in video, sound, sculpture, drawing, painting and new media.

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July 10 to December 20, 2009

Tonel
Las partes que más me sudan cuando me pongo nervioso
[The Parts of Me that Sweat the Most When I Get Nervous]

Antonio Eligio Fernández, known as Tonel , is an artist, scholar, critic, and curator. He has worked extensively in Cuba, Latin America, Europe, Canada and the United States. His early formation as an artist included regular publication of his drawings and cartoons, notably in DDT, a bi-weekly humour magazine published in Cuba in the 1970s. His articles and essays on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art have been published regularly in Cuba and elsewhere.

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1 May - 23 August, 2009

Jack Shadbolt: Underpinnings
Works on Paper from the Collection

Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is one of Canada’s most important artists. He is know for his paintings and murals that draw from his personal experiences and from the social and political collisions that have taken place in British Columbia’s history…

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16 January - 19 April, 2009

Action - Camera: Beijing Performance Photography

The early 1990s spawned a new avant-garde movement in China that forged explosive creative innovation in a rapidly changing society. This collection of provocative images delves into the trajectory of performance photography, from its beginnings of documenting underground, live performance in Beijing to its current practice that involves staging events specifically for the camera.

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February 13 - June 21, 2009

Lorna Brown: Threshold (cont.)

Threshold (cont.) is part of on ongoing inquiry into the topic of boredom that Brown began in 2000. Within various fields of research, boredom has been written about in diverse ways: as a condition that is dangerous to society, a precursor to positive radical change, and the result of becoming overwhelmed by tedious, repetitive activity.

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10 October - 7 December, 2008

David Claerbout

David Claerbout draws on the conventions of film, photography, and digital media, challenging boundaries by combining traditional technologies in the production of his works.

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5 September - 21 September, 2008

The Sooner the Better Late than Never
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate exhibition

Raymond Boisjoly, Melanie Bond, Natalie Doonan,
Jesse Gray, Joshua Hite, Ryan Peter

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16 May - 10 August, 2008

Idyll: Three Exhibitions

Audrey Capel Doray Electronic Seascape
Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob Wildflowers of Manitoba
Holly Ward Radical Rupture

On the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Belkin Art Gallery presents three exhibitions that address aspects of that revolutionary decade.

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18 January - 27 April, 2008

eXponential Future

Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar

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26 October – 2 December, 2007

Luis Jacob
A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, and Other Works

Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance, and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth, and the choreography of Quebecois artist Françoise Sullivan.

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14 September — 7 October, 2007

Green
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Nicole Brabant, Paul Kajander, Marilou Lemmens,
Elizabeth Milton, Colin Miner, Kristina Lee Podesva, Sarah Turner

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01 June—19 August 2007

Glenn Ligon
Some Changes

Glenn Ligon: Some Changes surveys the breadth of the New York based artist’s oeuvre over the last seventeen years. Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late eighties on the strength of conceptually based paintings and photo-text work that investigates the social, linguistic and political construction of race, gender and sexuality. Incorporating sources as diverse as James Baldwin’s texts, photographic scrapbooks, and Richard Pryor’s stand-up comic routines, Ligon’s art is a sustained meditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representation of the self in relation to culture and history.

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23 March—20 May 2007

John Massey
The House That Jack Built

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by John Massey, one of Canada’s foremost conceptual artists. Organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, this exhibition features Massey’s work over the past two decades, during which photography has become an increasingly important element in his art.

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12 January—11 March 2007

The Monochromatic Field:
Works from the Collection
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The Molnar Collection:
A View Of European Art

The Monochromatic Field spans five decades and features both monochromatic works and works that use a monochromatic field. Emblematic of radical negation and a complete break with the past when it first appeared in the history of art, the monochrome remains a critical gesture with multiple and provocative implications.

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20 October—10 December 2006

Passing Through
Iain Baxter& Photographs, 1958—1983

Throughout his career, Iain Baxter& has challenged ideas about what art is and what it does. Using everyday objects and processes, Baxter& creates works that engage audiences in contemporary social, political, and environmental issues. One of Canada’s most recognized conceptual artists, Baxter& has been taking photographs since the 1950s.

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15 September—01 October 2006

Strange Bedfellows
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Abbas Akhavan, Eryne Donahue, Rebecca Donald, Derek Dunlop, Robert Niven, Michael Euyung Oh

Strange Bedfellows points to the diverse and distinct practices of the 2006 Master of Fine Arts graduates. This is an excellent opportunity to view the work of six emerging artists whose practices explore the mediums of video, sculpture, performance and drawing.

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7 April—4 June 2006

Certain Encounters
Daros-Latin America Collection

Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection presents the work of twenty-one artists who have made important contributions to visual art in Latin America.

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20 January—19 March 2006

STAN DOUGLAS
Inconsolable Memories

Stan Douglas has an international reputation for his photographs and his film and video installations. Since the late 1980s, he has been a leader in pushing the museum space toward an involvement with the projected moving image, and in blurring the boundaries between visual art, cinema, and television.

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14 October—04 December 2005

Piotr Nathan
How far do you dare to go

Piotr Nathan was born in Gdansk, Poland and lives in Berlin. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the USA and this is his first exhibition in Canada. Nathan works in a variety of mediums and this exhibition will focus on works from the past ten years that include painting and three forty foot murals consisting of images garnered from the genre of 19th-century gravures made for the mass market.

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16 September—02 October 2005

Horses for Courses
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Erin Coates, Leanne Coughlin, Babak Golkar, Peter Mintchev, Daria Tavoularis, and Rahel Wachs.

While the idiom derives from racetrack lingo (referring to the suitability of different horses for different courses), Horses for Courses points to the diverse practices of the Master of Fine Arts graduates presented in this exhibition. This is an excellent opportunity to view the work of six emerging artists who work in the mediums of video, sculpture, performance and drawing.

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17 June—21 August 2005

Recent Acquisitions

Stephen Andrews, Jamelie Hassan, Ray Johnson, Myfanwy MacLeod, Jerry Pethick, Peter Schuyff, and Steven Shearer

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is home to British Columbia’s third largest public collection of art. During the past few years, the collection’s reputation has gained increased attention through the acquisition of important works by artists of regional, national, and international origin. Recent Acquisitions offers an opportunity to see a number of works that have recently entered the collection.

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22 April—5 June 2005

Substance Over Spectacle
Contemporary Canadian Architecture

Curated by Andrew Gruft

Substance over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture is an exhibition of projects by Canadian architects built in Canada since the beginning of the nineties, curated by Andrew Gruft. The exhibition is a follow up to Gruft’s survey of Canadian Architecture, A Measure of Consensus, which was organized by the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (now the Belkin) in 1986.

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01 April—10 April 2005

3 TEAMS: 3 VISIONS
University Boulevard Architectural Design Competition

The University of British Columbia is inviting architects to compete in presenting their visions for the new architecture and public spaces that will define the new University Boulevard neighbourhood.

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21 January—20 March 2005

Electrifying Art
Atsuko Tanaka 1956 – 1968

One of the most influential artists of post-war Japan, Atsuko Tanaka’s (b. 1932) installations and performances provided a benchmark position of the Japanese avant garde.

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8 October—28 November 2004

Daniel Richter
Pink Flag – White Horse

This exhibition presented nine of Daniel Richter’s iconic paintings. The works represent a significant contribution to renewed discussion of painting’s importance in 21st century artmaking.

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10 September—26 September 2004

Tickle Your Catastrophe
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Lynette Gillis, Anna Harrison, Kyla Mallett, Eleanor Morgan, Heather Passmore and Melissa Pauw.

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery was pleased to launch the 2004 fall exhibition schedule with the University of British Columbia’s Masters of Fine Arts graduate exhibition. This was an excellent opportunity to view the work of six emerging artists whose practices explore the mediums of video, installation, sculpture and photography.

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25 June—22 August 2004

AA Bronson
The Quick and the Dead

AA Bronson’s first solo exhibition in Canada since the demise of General Idea, The Quick & The Dead, brought together significant early and recent works that meditate on life, death and individuality.

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30 January—4 April 2004

Thrown
Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics

This exhibition presented over 700 ceramics produced since the 1960s that were influenced by the studio pottery movement of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.

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3 October—30 November 2003

3×3
Flavin, Andre, Judd

An exhibition of works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd organised and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada / Organisée et mise en tournée par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada; featuring archival materials, sketches and three major pieces by each artist.

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5 September—21 September 2003

Belkin Invitational
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Jerry Allen, Dick Averns, Christine D'Onofrio and Jennifer Pickering.

This exhibition marked the graduation of four artists from the MFA in Visual Art program at the University of British Columbia: Jerry Allen, Dick Averns, Christine D’Onofrio, and Jennifer Pickering.

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13 June—17 August 2003

Here and There
Works from the Collection

A summer exhibition featuring works recently acquired or donated to the permanent collection, including Kate Craig’s Flying Leopard Costume (c. late 1960s), Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome (2002) and AA Breakfast (1995) by Wolfgang Tillmans.

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21 March—11 May 2003

Kelly Wood
Continuous Garbage Project 1998-2003

Marking the completion of a long project, this exhibition was the first opportunity to view Kelly Wood’s The Continuous Garbage Project in its entirety.

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17 January—9 March 2003

Various Properties

Curated by Heather Bjorgan, Alice Edwards, Katie Spicer and Kiriko Watanabe, the inaugural exhibition of the Critical Curatorial Studies graduate program presented recent acquisitions to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery permanent collection.

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4 October—1 December 2002

Rebecca Belmore

Co-curated by Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Scott Watson, the exhibition featured new installation, video and photographic work created over the summer during a residency at the Belkin Satellite.

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13 September—22 September 2002

Dogwood
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

An excellent opportunity to view the work of five emerging artists whose practices explore the mediums of painting, photography, video and installation: Sean Alward, Gavin Hipkins, Tim Lee, Natasha McHardy, Ann Shelton. An illustrated catalogue is available.

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22 March— 25 August 2002

The Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Co-curated by Scott Watson, Director of the Belkin Gallery; Zheng Sheng Tian, Independent Scholar and Artist, Delta, BC; and Yan Shan Chen, Senior Researcher of Art at the Shenzhen Art Academy, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, this exhibition features the propaganda arts and rare materials of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1966-1976.

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18 January—3 March 2002

Andrea Fraser
Exhibition

Canada’s first exhibition of work by New York artist Andrea Fraser. The exhibition focuses on recent and new performance-based video works and includes Official Welcome performed at the opening reception and realized into video for the exhibition.

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12 October—2 December 2001

Conception
The Conceptual Document 1968-1972

Curated by Catherine Moseley, this touring exhibition originated at the Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design in England and focused on the key years of the development of Conceptual Art, now recognized as one of the one of the most critical developments in the globalization of contemporary art.

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12 October—2 December 2001

From Sierra Maestra to la Habana
The Drawings of Chago

Presenting 40 drawings by Santiago “Chago” Armada (1937—1995), a Cuban artist who first came to prominence as the official cartoonist of the revolutionary forces at Sierra Maestra and then as a soldier who served in several battles. These experiences as well as his later criticism “from within the Revolution” have made Chago a greatly revered figure among succeeding generations of Cuban artists

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14 September—30 September 2001

Present
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

An excellent opportunity to view an exciting, new generation of artists, working in media such as printmaking, drawing, installation and painting; featuring the work of Sylvia Grace Borda, Keith Langergraber, Daphne Locke and Misa Nikolic.

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1 June—26 August 2001

Recent Acquisitions to the Collection

A three-part exhibition of works acquired and donated to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery permanent collection including: Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign, 1974; In the Spirit of Fluxus; and Henri Chopin and Brion Gysin.

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23 March—13 May 2001

Stephen Andrews
Likeness

Recent work as well as encaustic drawings and bookworks from the late 1980s and 1990s by Toronto artist Stephen Andrews. Guest curated by Annette Hurtig.

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9 January—11 March 2001

Peter Doig

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition in Canada of paintings by leading British artist Peter Doig. Organized by Kitty Scott, Acting Associate Curator, National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition features a selection of major landscape paintings produced during the 1990s-2000. These paintings are loaned from public and private collections in Europe and North America.

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6 October—3 December 2000

Marcel Dzama
More Famous Drawings

The drawings of Winnipeg artist Marcel Dzama contain quirky characters inspired from sources as diverse as The Wizard of Oz, Captain America, Beatrix Potter, science textbooks, porn magazines, television cartoons and the bizarre in all times.

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15 September—24 September 2000

UBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Heidi May, Cheryl Larson, Evan Lee and Mohamed Somani

Featuring the work of Cheryl Larson, Evan Lee, Heidi May and Mohamed Somani.

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23 June—30 June 2000

Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760
Improvisation for 4 Film Projectors

Vancouver interdisciplinary artist Laiwan collaborates with virtuoso bass clarinetist Lori Freedman from Winnipeg to premiere this multimedia artwork. Playing on the idea of millennial year (4698 and 5760 are the Chinese and Jewish years respectively for 2000) Quartet uses 16mm film, music improvisation, live performance, sculptural installation, computer media and the internet. It is a celebration of our improvisational musical body, spontaneous time and space, and the presences/absences of cultural histories within a critique of the limitations of machines.

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7 April—4 June 2000

Lessons of Solitude

This show presented a selection of drawings and sculptures by Cuban artist Tonel. Guest curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

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14 January—12 March 2000

Consolation Prize

Bringing together recent works by influential American artists Mike Kelley and John Miller, both artists conceived new mixed-media projects specifically for this Vancouver exhibition. Guest curated by Roy Arden.

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8 October—19 December 1999

How Sad I am Today...
The Art of Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School

Often credited as the instigator of “mail art,” Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a foundational example for the Canadian avant-garde in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Guest curated by Michael Morris and Sharla Sava.

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8 October—19 December 1999

Up Against the Wall, Motherposter!

This exhibition includes street posters of protest from the events of May 1968, Paris and the political movements in Berkeley (Oakland in the late 1960s). Guest curated by Serge Guilbaut and Patricia Kelly.

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1 October—2 October 1999

Roy Kiyooka Conference

Roy Kiyooka (1926-1994) was a multi-disciplinary artist who was at various periods of his life known as a painter, sculptor, teacher, poet, musician, film-maker, and photographer…

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10 September—19 September 1999

UBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Jane Cameron, Sue Laing, Jeremy Todd and Marina Roy

This is an excellent opportunity to view a new generation of artists working in such media as installation, drawing, sculpture, painting, and photography.

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25 June—15 August 1999

Rodney Graham
Vexation Island

This latest major acquisition of Canadian art to the Belkin, Vexation Island is a 10 minute loop, shot on 35mm, edited on video and presented on laser disc. The “Robinson Crusoe” scenario invokes multi-layered readings from issues of colonialism to the impasse of modernist skepticism. Presented at the 1997 Venice Biennale, Vexation Island was filmed in the Caribbean, tourist paradise and point of first contact between Europe and the New World.

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25 June—15 August 1999

Golden Boys
Naturalism and Artifice in Homoerotic Photography, 1870-1970

While American physique photographs emerges as “art“in the post-Mapplethorpe 1980s, similar Canadian material has never been the subject of an exhibition. Guest curator Bruce Russell presents Canadian physique studies from the 1950s to 1960s in the context of a larger history beginning with male nudes produced for artists in the 19th century.

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25 June—15 August 1999

Sixteen Hundred Miles North of Denver

Focusing on the conceptual Arctic works by N.E. Thing Co., who travelled to Inuvik at the invitation of the Edmonton Art Gallery in 1969, this show includes works about the north by Lawren Harris from the 1930s and 50s and works produced by Inuit artists around the time of the Baxters’ visit. Catalogue essay by Charity Mewburn.

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17 April—13 June 1999

Geneviève Cadieux

Created for the Belkin, Montréal artist Geneviève Cadieux’s video-installation presents a dialogue between two adjacent video projections. The format is inspired by Pier Paolo Passolini’s theatrical text, Orgie, a last metaphorical conversation between SHE and HE. She constructs images that both impose a kind of claustrophobia – forcing us too close – while also promising us an oceanic feeling of release and openness.

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5 February—21 March 1999

Walter Marchetti and Zaj invitations from the Kenneth Coutts-Smith Archive

Walter Marchetti’s music began its present course after meeting Juan Hidalgo and Bruno Maderna in 1956 and befriending John Cage in 1958. He spent much of the 1960s-70s in Spain as part of the avant-garde formation, Zaj, founded in Madrid by Hidalgo and Marchetti.

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16 January—27 February 1999

Heart of Darkness
Emily Carr & Jack Shadbolt

Or Gallery

This group of over 18 works from the Belkin Art Gallery Collection will be the first two-person exhibition of British Columbia’s greatest artists.

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6 November 1998—24 January 1999

Raymonde April
Les fleuves invisible / Invisible Rivers

Québec artist, Raymonde April, uses narrative and personal experience to examine the subjects of figure, landscape and familiar objects in her black & white photographs. Guest curated by Nicole Gingras.

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6 November 1998—24 January 1999

Territorial Claim
Works from the Collection by Lawren Harris, Kiakshuk, N.E.Thing Co., Pauta, Simionee, and Tudlik

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9 October—25 October 1998

UBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Trevor Mahovsky, Paulo Majano, Rhonda Weppler
and Victor K. T. Wong

This is an excellent opportunity to view a new generation of Canadian artists.

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19 June—27 September 1998

Manuel Piña
(De)constructions and Utopias (Tribute to Eduardo Muñoz)

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19 June—27 September 1998

Recent Acquisitions to the Photo Collection

Vancouver has been one of the most important cities in the world for contemporary photographic production for over a decade. Given the long history that the UBC Gallery and the UBC Fine Arts Department has had with the artists involved, the contemporary photo collection has, in recent years, become the focus of much attention.

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24 April—31 May 1998

Zhang Peili and Gu Wenda

This show focuses on the work of Chinese artists Gu Wenda and Zhang Peili, who have emerged from the Jiangnan region in the post-Tiananmen Chinese avante-garde movement.

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6 February—29 March 1998

6: New Vancouver Modern

Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Steven Shearer, Ron Terada and Kelly Wood

This exhibition focused on a new generation of Vancouver artists who produce engaged contemporary work in idioms that are in international circulation: photo-based conceptualism, exploration of commodity fetishism, and interrogations about the status of representation.

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21 November 1997—25 January 1998

Roy Arden

Arden’s subject is the landscape of the economy, as it appears through the everyday surface of his local surroundings. His large colour photographs are intended as realist tableaux, they depict traces of history in the present as well as the brutal appearance of the new.

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31 October—9 November 1997

UBC Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Jonathan Boer, Kevin Dubois, Karin Geiger, Phyllis Greenwood, I Chun Melody Lin and Gerald Penry

An opportunity to view an exciting new generation of Canadian artists working in multi-media, installation, painting, photography and sculpture.

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15 August—19 October 1997

Théodore Géricault
The Alien Body / Tradition in Chaos

An exhibition of over 80 works by the French Romantic master, Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). These rarely seen treasures were borrowed for an exclusive engagement at the Belkin Gallery from the Musee du Louvre, the Ecole Nationale Superior des Beaux Arts (Paris) and other prestigious French and Canadian museums.

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11 June—19 July 1997

Laughter Ten Years After

This anthology exhibition curated by Jo Anna Isaak, included the works of 20 women artists from the United States, England, Ireland, France and Russia who explore what has been described as the “subversive potential of the carnivalized feminine principle” to disrupt art history’s long held ideas about originality, creativity and genius.

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22 March—25 May 1997

New Art from Cuba
Utopian Territories

An important group exhibition of contemporary Cuban art. 23 artists comment on the richness, paradoxes and contradictions of Cuban life, politics and culture at a time when Cuba is at a crossroads in its history.

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10 January—1 March 1997

Mina Totino

A Vancouver artist whose canvases explore the demonic and libidinal energies of decoration and ornament, drawing connections between Dutch still-life emblems and 1990s tattoos and body piercing.

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25 October 1996— 21 February 1997

The Books of Edward Ruscha

An exhibition of the bookworks of conceptual artist Ed Ruscha, curated by George Wagner.

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Larry Johnson

A hybrid of photography, text, animation, graphic design and painting, Johnson’s works investigate American language by zeroing in on the bizarre epiphanies and cruel despair of a new consciousness created by the totalization of consumer culture.

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1996 Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Brynhildur Gudmundsdottir, Joy James Henley, Tessa Lamb, Tim Rattel, Mel Stidolph, and Kelly Wood

The exhibition of the graduating Masters of Fine Arts class is now an annual event at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. It is the occasion where the work of the Department of Fine Arts and Studio Division is presented to the campus and the community.

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30 August—28 September 1996

Colour Research

An exhibition from material in the Morris/Trasov Archive housed at the Belkin Art Gallery. The colour bar projects involved painting, sculpture, performance, film and conceptual art and included the hand manufacture of two thousand painted wooden colour bars which were used as modules in temporary outdoor works of art.

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30 August—28 September 1996

Recent Acquisitions

Lawren Harris, Claude Breeze, Emmett Williams, Eric Metcalfe, Attila Richard Lukacs, and Audrey Capel Doray

This first exhibition of the University of British Columbia’s collection in the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery celebrates one year in our new building by acknowledging the gifts of works of art we have received over the last several years.

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7 June—14 August 1996

Attila Richard Lukacs

The Workers Series, produced between 1989 and 1993, is six paintings distinguished by their large-scale format, parodies of murals in the official social realist style of the former Soviet-bloc.

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14 March—25 May 1996

Agnes Martin and Emily Carr
The Innocence of Trees

A small but choice selection of the works of two of the twentieth century’s greatest painters—both women, both raised in B.C. Carr became an expressionist, painting the wild forest and sky. Martin became a minimalist, painting highly refined variations on her intimations of divine order on nature. Guest curated by David Bellman.

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27 January—2 March 1996

Robert Filliou
From Political to Poetical Economy

A joint production of the Western Front and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. This project involves the production of a laser disc exhibition edition of three hours of Robert Filliou’s Canadian video work (edition of 20); a publication (edition of 1000); and an exhibition at the gallery. Co-curated by Hank Bull, Sharla Sava and Scott Watson with Rob Kozinuk.

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27 January—2 March 1996

Rodney Graham

The exhibition features Graham’s massive installation piece The School of Velocity, a twenty-four hour musical composition that plays on a Yamaha Disklavier. A poster announcing the performances was produced as a limited edition print as a fund-raiser for the gallery.

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10 November 1995 —14 January 1996

Seeing in Tongues
A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Quebec / Le Bout de la Langue: Les Arts Visuels et la Langue au Quebec

Gilbert Boyer, Geneviéve Cadieux, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapoint, Raymond Gervais, André Martin, Rober Racine, Louise Robert, Barbara Steinman, Louise Viger

The exhibition is about how questions of identity are posed within or against a nationalist agenda.

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29 September—28 October 1995

Capitalizing the Scenery
Landscape, Leisure and Tourism in British Columbia 1880 - 1950

This student-organized exhibition examines the interconnectedness of landscape painting and tourist imagery in British Columbia from the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s to the introduction of “The Canadian”, a transcontinental passenger train, in the 1950s.

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20 June—16 September 1995

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at U.B.C. opens on June 20 with an exhibition of work by Salish artist, Yuxweluptun, gathering together his paintings and drawings from collections in the United States, Germany, Canada and Switzerland. As well, the exhibition will feature his virtual reality project made at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1992. Guest curated by Charlotte Townsend-Gault.

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